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Equal Pay:
Discrimination in pay based on sex has not been eliminated under current law.
Today, women who work full-time are paid only 73 cents weekly for every dollar men earn, and women of color who work full-time are paid only 64 cents for every dollar men earn overall. Ending pay discrimination — making sure that women get equal pay for work of equal value — would erase the persistent wage gap.
If women earned as much as similar men — those of the same education and age who work in the same geographic location for the same number of hours — families' incomes would increase. Working families lose $200 billion annually because women earn less—an average annual loss of more than $4,000 per family due to unequal pay.
While there are federal laws prohibiting wage discrimination based on gender, race and national origin, their enforcement is weak and their scope is limited. In many instances, it is extremely difficult, under existing law, to prove wage discrimination cases and win.
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